“Amazon’s recommendation engine is the best in the e-commerce world, but it’s far from perfect and can even make some elementary errors.

“The other retailers are light years behind, and many of them…are like walking into a bookstore where the genre shelves are totally hidden, and the entire store consists of front tables (and Big 5 books).

“I think (device owning) readers get recommendations these days from a broader range of sources. It’s not just friends, the bookstore, and the newspaper, but Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, and thousands and thousands of book blogs and review sites…“

And, he summed-up with:

“The tools we have for discovering books can and will get better, but I think they are pretty good as is.”

So…

Readers have many more ways to find books and Authors have more decisions about placing their books where readers can find them.

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